T. Michael W. Halcomb
T. Michael W. Halcomb
Transformation
Convert my absence into Your presence God. Change my prejudices into Your piety. Transform my shallowness into Your holiness. Alter my lack into Your gain. Modify my desires to match Your desires. Adjust my attitude to meet Your ways. Amend my hopes that they might be Your hopes.
T. Michael W. Halcomb
Sanctification
Move toward me today O God and as you do, sanctify me. Move closer to my mind and heart today O Lord and massage them with a profound sanctification that allows for a growing closer to You and Your world.
T. Michael W. Halcomb
Heart To Heart
Holy God
I plead for Your presence
In the midst of my angers,
Frustrations, lusts,
Ignorances, arrogances,
And selfishness.
Thank You
For letting me have this
Heart to heart
And I ask that
As You purify my heart
It would recognize
Your presence
In the hearts of
Those around me.
May it be!
T. Michael W. Halcomb
Bosom-Friend
Creator God,
Sustainer God,
God among us and
God with us,
May we rest
In Your presence today
And every day.
May we be mindful
Of the fact that
When the body of
Our Lord, Jesus Christ
Was given and transgressed against,
When it had its last
Shot of breath flow through it,
No longer did we need
His physical body,
That beautiful incarnate body,
Because now, our hope
Was present in the
Indwelling
Of the Spirit.
Intimacy was reached
On a new level
And You O Spirit,
Became our Bosom-Friend,
As Nouwen once said.
Like Cleopas and his friend,
May you open us up
To the realization that
A life in the Spirit's presence
Is a new life and
A life that is radically different.
Come O Holy Spirit
And tent among us
And make us Yours.
In the name of
The Father,
The Son,
And The Holy Spirit.
Amen.
T. Michael W. Halcomb
Your Pneumatic Essence
Today
I'm still breathing
God.
I'm living
And
I'm thankful
For
Your animating presence.
O Ruach,
O Spirit-Breath,
Who renews
And can create from chaos,
May You be present
Today.
Bestow Your presence
Upon me
And instill in me
Awareness
And
Attentiveness
To Your
Pneumatic essence.
Breath in me,
On me,
Around me,
Through me,
And out of me.
Draw near O Spirit,
Draw near
Today.
T. Michael W. Halcomb
Refound
O Center of Advent,
The One who promises presence
In our lives,
As I seek Your presence
May I be refound.
Refound not in the sense
That I have been lost
And need finding
But refound in the sense
That I may be recast
Like a cracked bell
Whose music reaches out
And reverberates and echoes
In all the earth.
I want my music to be Your dance
And Your dance to be with me,
Perichoresis.
Refound me Center of Advent,
In and by the weightiness of
Your presence.
T. Michael W. Halcomb
When Painting Advent
O God of color,
Who is not colorblind,
But who is in the colors,
And who adores the diversity of hues,
I seek Your presence this Advent.
For You, O God, are The Artist.
You O Lord, are The Creator.
You O Father, are The One
Who sheds light
Upon this canvas, Your world
And enables us to see
In ways that others cannot.
You are Emmanuel, You are with us.
You have been incarnate and
You dwell within and among us.
You are the Light of the World.
So, help us God to be thankful for the light
For many times, we are only thankful
For the paint,
And the brush,
And the canvas,
But what is the painting without Light?
As You make Yourself present this Advent season,
And as You paint Advent,
Help us to be aware of the Light
For without light of Light
We cannot see the picture,
Much less the big picture!
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